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Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works View showing charging side of coke ovens

SC 525228

Description Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works View showing charging side of coke ovens

Date 4/4/1978

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 525228

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clyde Iron Works, Tollcross, Glasgow Clyde Iron Works, founded in 1787 as an iron-smelting works, was completely rebuilt from the 1930s to supply pig iron in molten form to the adjacent Clydebridge Steelworks, and in solid form to steelworks in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. This view shows part of the main range of coke ovens at the works, which made the coke used to smelt iron in the blast furnaces. The ovens proper are on the right. The reinforced-concrete silos stored coal to be charged into the ovens. Each oven was a vertical space lined with firebricks, and heated from either side by gas recovered from the conversion of coal to coke. The ovens closed in 1978 when the making of iron at Clyde ceased, and have been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H78/45/16

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/525228

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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